Nobel Prize

Prizes related to the 2008 Chemistry Prize In 2008, Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). Find out here about previous Nobel Prizes relevant to their work. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 Andrew Z. Fire…

16 October 1985 has decided to award the 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Professor Herbert A. Hauptman, The Medical Foundation of Buffalo, USA, and toProfessor Jerome Karle, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA, for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.   SummaryThis year’s Nobel Prize…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007   Editors: Håkan Wennerström, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Ulrika Björkstén, Nobel Museum, Annika Moberg and Andrea Westerdahl, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustration: Typoform Print: Katarinatryck AB 2007 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden tel: +46…

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I was born on March 21, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. My father, Richard V. Gilbert, an economist, was at that time at Harvard University. He worked for the Office of Price Administration during the second World War and later headed up a planning group advising the Pakistani government. My mother, Emma Cohen, was a child…

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15 October 1986 has decided to award the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Professor Dudley R. Herschbach, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, Professor Yuan T. Lee, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Professor John C. Polanyi, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes. The dynamics of…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The youth of to-day find it quite natural that there are such things as atoms and molecules. They have often seen molecular models in school and experienced the molecule as something obviously existing. There…

Like a successful dinner party, productive chemical reactions depend upon getting the right components to mingle in the right surroundings, and often the best environment for chemistry turns out to be a solid surface. From the cleaning of exhaust fumes in factory chimneys to the reduction of ozone on the outside of ice crystals in…